Do you own a set of LED-lit RAM, but still have extra empty slots on your motherboard? Do you find the emptiness a bit… empty yet, you don’t want to spend the money for an additional DRAM kit to fill those slots? Well, Corsair has the solution for you. Corsair has recently announced the Vengeance RGB Pro Light Enhancement Kit (CMWLEKIT2W/B) which is expected to retail at $39.99.

These kits are lacking any actual memory though feature the same heatsinks and RGB functionality featured on the Vengeance RGB Pro kits, without any of the costly memory. Just like the real Vengeance RGB memory kits, these “fake” kits use the same addressable RGB [...]

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January 24, 2018

AVADirect X370 Quiet Gaming PC Review

Quiet and Beautiful

AVADirect wasn’t really a systems builder on our radar until late last year when we reviewed their Avant Mini Cube Gaming PC. After extensive testing, we found that the system was well configured, well built, and well priced, quickly propelling AVADirect to the top as one of our favorite custom PC builders.

Recently, AVADirect sent us another one of the systems in their lineup, the AVADirect X370 Quiet Gaming PC, which as its name implies is AVADirect’s quiet gaming PC offering based on AMD’s X370 Ryzen platform.

Corsair Premium PBT Double-Shot Keycaps Now Available

Corsair produces some of the finest gaming keyboards on the market and today they’re also getting into the market of producing some of the finest keycaps as well.

Corsair’s new double-shot PBT keycaps blends the exquisite double-shot printing technique with premium PBT plastic. Unlike most keyboards which use ABS keycaps that tend to shine after prolonged use, PBT is a harder plastic that holds its shape better and will stay looking fresh for years.

Double-shot keyprints layers two different colored plastics on top of one another, with the bottom layer seeping through the top layer to form the keyprints. Double-shot keyprints [...]

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September 28, 2017

Razer Basilisk Review

FPS Gaming Mouse

First Person Shooter, or FPS, games are one of the most common gaming genres out there, but when it comes to gaming mice designed specifically for the genre, there is surprisingly very few out there. Of course, if you ask any professional FPS gamer, it’s easy to understand why. As FPS gaming relies almost solely on the quality of the main switches along with the accuracy of the sensor, FPS gamers typically select simple mice with quality switches and ultra-accurate sensors making gaming mice such as the Zowie EC2, Razer DeathAdder Elite, Logitech G Pro, or SteelSeries Rival 300 some of the most popular gaming mice for FPS gamers.

Of course, [...]

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September 26, 2017

Corsair Launches Vengeance RGB White DDR4 RAM Modules

Corsair has outfitted its Vengeance DDR4 RAM series with shiny white armor and lots of lights.

The new Vegeance RGB White DDR4 comes with a white heating shroud to better blend in with your case or offer higher contrast, which ever you prefer. The shroud is still decked with RGB lighting. Besides being able to be controlled via the Corsair LINK sofware, it’s also compatible with Gigabyte RGB Fusion, MSI Mystic Light, and Asus Aura Sync lighting control software.

Samsung T5 2TB Review

64-Layer 3D NAND, USB 3.1 Gen 2

Last year I was fortunate enough to be among the first to review the Samsung T3 Portable SSD. The drive was small, durable, fast, available in capacities up to 2TB, and relatively good looking making it not only my favorite portable SSD, but also my most highly recommended as well.

Corsair Launches Neutron NX500 NVMe PCIe SSD

After the successful release of the Force MP500 PCIe SSD earlier this year, Corsair is adding another PCIe SSD to the mix with the new Corsair Neutron NX500.

The new SSD will be available in capacities of 400GB, 800GB, and 1600GB will come in an HHHL form factor and feature support for NVMe over a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface. Performance of the Neutron NX500 is rated at up to 3,000/2,400 MB/s sequential reads/writes and 300K/270K IOPS 4K random reads/writes. The NX500 will also feature MLC NAND for greater performance and reliability compared to TLC NAND.

The Corsair NX500 400GB and 800GB capacity drives are now available with the 1,600GB capacity drive available [...]

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July 26, 2017

EagleTree Capital Buys Majority Stake in CORSAIR for $525 Million

In a recent press release, CORSAIR announced that EagleTree Capital has reached an agreement to purchase a majority stake in the company for $525 Million.

EagleTree Capital will be purchasing the majority stake from CORSAIR shareholders Francisco Partners and several other minority shareholders. Current CORSAIR Founder and CEO Andy Paul will continue to hold a large equity stake in his company and continue his role as CEO.

“We are excited about the opportunity to partner with EagleTree and leverage the team’s consumer products expertise to further accelerate our progress,” said Andy Paul, Founder and CEO of CORSAIR. “We are very fortunate to have attracted such [...]

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July 28, 2017

Patriot Viper V770 Review

Introduction

Although Patriot Memory is most well known for its memory kits, Patriot has become quite the major player in the gaming peripheral business in the past few years.

At CES 2017 earlier this year, we were first introduced to the Patriot Viper V770 mechanical gaming keyboard, which would be Patriot’s flagship mechanical gaming keyboard of 2017. At the show, the Patriot Viper V770 showed quite a bit of promise as a solid premium mechanical gaming keyboard with features such as RGB backlit Kailh Red Switches, a ton of built-in features, dedicated macros, and a LED wristrest.

Over the past few months, we’ve had the opportunity to review the [...]

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July 12, 2017

It’s Finally Here. Best Deals of Amazon Prime Day 2017! [Expired]

Over the past few days, Amazon has been running multiple pre-sales leading up to their big Prime Day sales event, but starting at 9PM EST today, July 11, and ending exactly 30 hours later at 3AM EST tomorrow, July 12, Amazon will be hosting their largest sale for the year with deals coming up every five minutes.

We’ve went through the first round of deals and here’s a list of some of the deals to watch out for: